Self-serving store



H'..LEE. S'ELF'SERVING STORE. APPLICATION FILED MAY 11, 1920.

. Patented May '17, 1921'.

/ NECK ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HOARD'LEE, or snanvnron'r, LOUISIANA."

Specification ofLetters Patent. Patented May 17, 1921,-

Application fiIed May I1, 1920. Serial No. 380,634.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HOARD LEE, cltlzen of the United States, residing atShreveport,

in the parish of Gaddo and State of Louisiana, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Self-Serving Stores, of which the followingis a specification;

This invention relates to new and useful imgrovements in a self servingstore.

no object of the invention is to provide a self serving store withdisplay shelves so arranged that each customer may pass along theshelving, wherein the goods to be sold are displayed, and select sucharticles of the invention has particular relation to cer tain novelfeatures of construction, arrangement of parts and use, an example ofwhich is given in this specification and illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, wherein:

Figure 1 shows a plan view of the store room, and

Fig. 2 shows a rear View of the shelving.

Referring now more particularly to the drawings, wherein like numeralsof reference designate similar parts in each of the figures, the numeral1 refers to a store room having the usual side and end walls. In thefront end are the entrance doors 2, 2 which lead into the vestibule 3which is formed by means of the transverse parti:

tion 4. This partition has the inlet. door 5 a and the exit door 6arranged, at opposite sides of the room and between them there is thechecking counter 7. Through the inlet door 5 customers may enter theanteroom 8 and leading from this room rearwardly there is a row ofshelving 9 which is s aced from the wall forming an isle 10.

he shelving 9 extends back usually' about a} of the distance from thefront'to the rear wall and then across the room following a generalzigzag course toward the front of the room and forming the isles 11, 12and 13 arranged parallel and opening in the same direction along whichthe customers pass in selecting goods. nately with the" isles 11, 12 and13 are the isles 14:, 15 and 16, which open in the same directionproviding passageways for supplying the shelving with the goods to be.sold from therear. A low partition 17 ex- Arranged alteri tends fromthe ante-room 8 back parallel with the row of shelving 9 to the rear ofthe shelv1ng.- This partition 17 is spaced from the shelving 9 to forman entrance passage- Way 18 and the isles 11, 12 and 13 are divided bycentrally located-low partitions 19, 20 and 21 which extend fromthepartr tion 17 nearly to the closed end of said isles but leavingspace for passage-around theends of said partitions. The entrance-to thepassageway 18 is guarded by the turnstile 22 and the partition 17, hasentrance passageways opposite the respective isles .11, 12 and 13 whichare guarded by the respective turn-stiles 23, 24 and 25, thus permittingaccess directly into either isle desired from the passageway 18. v a

The shelving rows have doors 26 at convenient intervals to permitmerchandise to be placed on the shelving from the rear. The customerpasses in from the vestibule through the ante-room and along theassageway 18 to the desired turn-stile and t ere enters the isle desiredand after ventering must then follow the course of the shelving by thechecking counter ,7 to the exit.- At the checking counter 7, the goodsselected are checked and .paid for. p

The rear of the shelving is .rovided with suitable wire mesh "27 to'retain thearticles of merchandise in place and the doors. 26 I andpartitions 17, 19, 20 and 21 may also be formed of meshwork if desired.l

It isto be notedthat each succeeding tier of shelving from the front islonger than the one just in front of it, thus'enabling those enteringthe store to see the ends of the various tiers of .shelvingand on thefront end at a suitable placean index may be provided to indicate to thecustomer where the class of merchandise he wishes to buy may be found,thus saving the purchaser the trouble of having to search "through theentire list of articles in the store to find whathe wishes to purchase.

What I claim is: 1. In a self-serving store, the combination with aninclosure of an entrance passageway formed of a row of shelving and apartition spaced apart, said row of shelving being continuous around thepartition and following a general zigzag course so as to produce anumber of parallel aisles opening toward'the partition, each tier ofsaid zigzag shelving being longer than the one justin front of it.

2. In a self serving store, in combination with an inclosure of anentrance passageway formed of a roW of shelving and a partition spacedapart; said row of shelving continuing on around the partition andfollowing .a general zigzag course so as to produce a number of parallelaisles opening toward the partition, each tier of said zigzag shelvingbeing longer than the one just in front of it and lattice Work doors forforming a back to said shelving and turn-stiles in the partitionopposite the respective aisles.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing vWitnesses.

' HOARD LEE.

Witnesses W. A, CATHEY, A. ALLEN.

